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Last week reinforcements showed up when one of Pathfinder's robotic littermates--the Global Surveyor--arrived at the planet and swung into orbit. Though the landers are likely to wink out within months, the Surveyor orbiter will be studying the planet's surface and atmosphere for years to come. When it's done, NASA should have a better picture than it's ever had of Mars' chemistry, meteorology and perhaps even biology. "We want to understand the evolution of water in that atmosphere," says Arden Albee, Surveyor project scientist, "and whether life could possibly have existed on Mars...
MOSCOW: The Russian Space Agency may want to consider buying extra collision insurance for the long-suffering Mir. The station was nearly creamed Tuesday by a 350-pound U.S. satellite traveling along a similar orbit...
...State Albright and Palestinian President Arafat left both sides skeptical (TIME Daily)... Scots go to the polls today to vote on a plan for a Scottish Parliament, but will they give it "Tartan Tax"-raising powers? (TIME Daily) ... NASA's Martian "spy satellite," Global Surveyor, begins its first orbit of the Red Planet (TIME Daily) ... Twenty years after South African security police beat him to death, Steve Biko is getting his day in court (TIME Daily) ... National Security Adviser Samuel Berger tells the Senate campaign finance probe that he saw no evidence of "extraneous" influence on Clinton foreign policy (AllPolitics...
Expect more dramatic pictures from the Red Planet tomorrow as the Mars Global Surveyor settles into orbit for a three-year high-altitude mapping mission...
...moon. The most intense outbursts explode a billion tons of material off the sun's searing (11,000[degrees]F) surface at speeds of millions of miles an hour. If these electrically charged particles happen to slam against Earth's atmosphere, they can imperil astronauts, push satellites out of orbit or fry their circuitry. If they hit the ground, they can turn compass needles topsy-turvy, knock out electrical-power systems and possibly change the planetary climate. No wonder scientists dream of one day being able to predict storms on the sun with all the accuracy of terrestrial weather forecasts...